Avi Lewis

Avi Lewis is Strategic Director of The Leap. He is a Canadian documentary filmmaker whose recent films include This Changes Everything (2015), The Take (2004) and Keepers of the Future (2018). Avi is the former host/producer of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) current affairs programs CounterSpin and On the Map, and Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines.

This is the terrain on which the great struggle of our time is being waged: who defines crisis, who benefits from it, and what is made invisible in the process. And we are not yet winning: this very same month saw plenty of genuine crises, all connected to climate breakdown, which made only time-limited appearances in our national debate.